Project

A data-driven approach to constructing domain-specific and implicit sentiment knowledge bases

Code
3E006116
Duration
01 October 2016 → 31 January 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Computational linguistics
Keywords
lexicons sentiment analysis computational linguistics Language technology
 
Project description

Polarity lexicons, an important resource for automatic sentiment analysis in text, are expensive to build manually, and they ignore the complexity of how sentiment can be expressed (e.g. implicitly, using factual statements that entail a sentiment). This project investigates a method for automatically deriving polarity lexicons from large corpora, allowing more complex representations than single lemmas.